This tutorial will show you how to quickly and easily backup and restore a MySQL database using just ColdFusion scripts and avoiding having to use CFEXECUTE which is normally disallowed on shared hosting platforms.

ColdFusion 8 has some handy tags that will provide database detail but what if you're running CF7? Normally you would have to resort to running the mysqldump command but this is restrictive if you wanted to provide your users with a method to backup their databases.